Sandfish
Holothuria scabra · Echinoderm
A sea cucumber about 22 cm long (up to 40 cm) that lives in seagrass beds and on muddy bottoms less than 20 m deep across the tropical Indo-Pacific, even in brackish water; the young come out in the dark and the adults burrow. Harvested for over a thousand years, it is the sea cucumber most eaten: dried as bêche-de-mer or trepang, it sold for up to 100 dollars a kilogram in the 1990s, mostly to Asian buyers, and is now farmed.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, by night
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Estuary, Coastal Shelf, Coral Reef
Gives
Sources
- Holothuria scabra. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Holothurie. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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